Security Practices Today, Or Lack Thereof

contributed by Erik
A new article in the Buffer Overflow section illustrates what system administrators are doing these days in the way of security. You may be surprised, or not, at what some administrators consider to be secure computing practices.

Buffer Overflow


  Internet Wiretapping Still a Possibility

contributed by Brian Oblivion
While approximately fifty-five percent of the Internet Engineering Task Force voted against a measure to include wiretapping capabilities into new protocols there was not a high enough objection to close the issue permanently. The director of the transport area of the IETF said that unless the proposal receive a much stronger objection the possibility of including these features still exists.

ZD Net


  Stock Prices Manipulated in China

contributed by no0ne
Zhao Zhe, 28 and a former trust firm employee, received three years of jail time from a Chinese court and was ordered to pay restitution for breaking into a computerized trading system, and manipulating stock data. This allowed the pair to sell shares at higher prices.

CNNNfn
Wired
Nando Times


  Electronic Information Stolen from Egypt

contributed by Evil Wench
With all the hype about electronic break ins, cyber-intruders, and internet terrorists it is sometimes easy to forget about the physical world. On October 6th of this year Egypt discovered several computer disks had been stolen from the University of Cairo. The disks contained classified information about the country's natural resources such as gold, copper and uranium reserves.

Nando Times


  Aleph One Gives NPR Interview

contributed by oolong
Aleph One (Elias Levy), the administrator of the BugTraq mailing list and the CTO of Security Focus.com, was interviewed on National Public Radio on the topic of "Cyber Terrorism" last Friday.

NPR - archived .ram file of the interview


  South American Con Announced

contributed by Space Rogue
Whoa, a hacker convention in Bogota, Colombia. Its coming up very soon. Check out Col Con '00.

HNN Cons Page


  New Ezines Released

contributed by Space Rogue
Issue one of Camarilla, a new zine with articles on computers, networking, telephony, humor and everything in between has been released. After a weeks hiatus issue #41 of HWA hax0r news covering the last two weeks has also been issued.

Camarilla
HWA hax0r news


  Affiliate Update

contributed by Space Rogue
We have recently updated the HNN Affiliates page and purged it of old, non working links and sites that are only 'under construction'. We now have over 200 affiliates. If you would like your web siteto be added to the list then check out some of our affiliate resources and then send us mail. Note: If your site is up and working and we removed it from the list let us know and we will put it back.

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